Reflection

Justin Timberlake released an eight-minute music video that celebrates the epic, decades-spanning love story of his beloved maternal grandparents, William and Sadie Bomar.

JT's touching, tear-jerking "Mirrors" video, begins with a sad-eyed, silver-haired actress boxing up a man's belongings while he stands behind her, ghostlike; the implication is her husband has passed away. The real-life William died on December 29 last year, after a long battle with heart trouble and dementia. His health problems prevented the couple from traveling to Italy to attend their grandson's wedding last October; the groom, however, had slices of wedding cake flown 5,000 miles to their home in Tennessee. A later scene in the "Mirrors" video, when the fictional Sadie's wedding ring falls off and her grandson deftly catches it, hints at Justin's intention to carry on the Bomars' legacy and hopefully enjoy a union with his new bride that's as loving and successful as the one his grandparents shared for 63 years.

But before that moment, the "Mirrors" video hops from sweet scenes of the actors portraying the elderly couple merrily dancing in their bedroom, to flashbacks of their carefree bobby-socks courtship in the 1950s and a rough marital patch in the '60s, to lump-throated scenes of the widowed Sadie living with her husband's ghost and still mirroring his moves. It's an extremely haunting clip that warrants multiple viewings--preferably with a box of extra-ply tissues at the ready.

Source: Y! Music

I just want to wrap my precious grandfather up and keep him with me here forever. I know I can’t do that, so I’ll have to say goodbye. I’m sure going to miss him dearly.

Mirrors
By: Justin Timberlake
Aren't you somethin' to admire, cause your shine is somethin' like a mirror
And I can't help but notice, you reflect in this heart of mine
If you ever feel alone and the glare makes me hard to find
Just know that I'm always parallel on the other side

Cause with your hand in my hand and a pocket full of soul
I can tell you there's no place we couldn't go
Just put your hand on the glass, I'll be tryin' to pull you through
You just gotta be strong

Cause I don't wanna lose you now
I'm lookin' right at the other half of me
The vacancy that sat in my heart
Is a space that now you hold
Show me how to fight for now
And I'll tell you baby, it was easy
Comin' back into you once I figured it out
You were right here all along
It's like you're my mirror
My mirror staring back at me
I couldn't get any bigger
With anyone else beside of me
And now it's clear as this promise
That we're making two reflections into one
Cause it's like you're my mirror
My mirror staring back at me, staring back at me

Aren't you somethin', an original, cause it doesn't seem merely assembled
And I can't help but stare cause I see truth somewhere in your eyes
I can't ever change without you, you reflect me, I love that about you
And if I could, I would look at us all the time

Cause with your hand in my hand and a pocket full of soul
I can tell you there's no place we couldn't go
Just put your hand on the glass, I'll be tryin' to pull you through
You just gotta be strong

Cause I don't wanna lose you now
I'm lookin' right at the other half of me
The vacancy that sat in my heart
Is a space that now you hold
Show me how to fight for now
And I'll tell you baby, it was easy
Comin' back into you once I figured it out
You were right here all along
It's like you're my mirror
My mirror staring back at me
I couldn't get any bigger
With anyone else beside of me
And now it's clear as this promise
That we're making two reflections into one
Cause it's like you're my mirror
My mirror staring back at me, staring back at me

Yesterday is history
Tomorrow's a mystery
I can see you lookin' back at me
Keep your eyes on me
Baby, keep your eyes on me

Cause I don't wanna lose you now
I'm lookin' right at the other half of me
The vacancy that sat in my heart
Is a space that now you hold
Show me how to fight for now
And I'll tell you baby, it was easy
Comin' back into you once I figured it out
You were right here all along
It's like you're my mirror
My mirror staring back at me
I couldn't get any bigger
With anyone else beside of me
And now it's clear as this promise
That we're making two reflections into one
Cause it's like you're my mirror
My mirror staring back at me, staring back at me

You are you are the love of my life

Baby you're the inspiration for this precious song
And I just wanna see your face light up since you put me on
So now I say goodbye to the old me, it's already gone
And I can't wait wait wait wait wait to get you home
Just to let you know, you are

You are you are the love of my life

Girl you're my reflection, all I see is you
My reflection, in everything I do
You're my reflection and all I see is you
My reflection, in everything I do

You are you are the love of my life.